Re: [9fans] plan 9 regexp

2009-06-13 Thread J.R. Mauro
I got it to build for linux with some modifications, if you or anyone is interested. Now I just need a sawk and syacc. On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:27 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> >> It does. That doesn't build either :( >> > > there is very little source code there.  why not dump the configure > goo

Re: [9fans] porting p9p to Google's NaCl

2009-06-13 Thread erik quanstrom
> This is how TLS is done. Either %gs or %fs are setup so that a > prefixed instruction will use the TLS address range. all the world's a vax. er, wrong century. all the world's an x86. > The basic idea is: when segment translation is done anyway, let's > exploit it and get guest code memor

Re: [9fans] porting p9p to Google's NaCl

2009-06-13 Thread André Günther
Having looked into this a bit, it appears to be more like 9vx than QEMU (uses segmenting capabilities), that is, unless I've forgotten how 9vx is set up. I believe some X11 stuff also uses segment registers, as well as TLS on Linux. TLS and the kind of segmentation 9vx and NaCl are

Re: [9fans] porting p9p to Google's NaCl

2009-06-13 Thread David Leimbach
Having looked into this a bit, it appears to be more like 9vx than QEMU (uses segmenting capabilities), that is, unless I've forgotten how 9vx is set up. I believe some X11 stuff also uses segment registers, as well as TLS on Linux. I "get it". Especially that they're shooting for Native Arm. It

Re: [9fans] porting p9p to Google's NaCl

2009-06-13 Thread André Günther
I just want to point out that in NaCl you can't possibly ever support proper error handling because NaCl will just let your process die on a fault. Other than that i'd like to know what kind of use cases you would find this interesting for. I can't come up with any, but that's maybe due t